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why the FUCK did Cole not take that pen!!!!!!

I cannot recall the last time I disliked a Chels player as much as I do Sterling

18m quid per year to be a cunt

I detest that fucker

FUCK OFF STERLING

wtf Sanchez

and how shit is Sterling, wtf

pull that cunt Sanchez

great CF play by Nico

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

fuck off Sterling

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(Video): Chelsea wonderkid starts new league season with a stunning 45 minutes https://Chelsea.news/2024/03/video-Chelsea-wonderkid-starts-new-league-season-with-a-stunning-45-minutes/ Chelsea talent Kendry Paez won’t be able to join us until next summer, but that won’t stop us enjoying his highlights in the meantime. He’s just started a new season in Ecuador with Independiente del Valle, and last night he got his first goal of the fledgling season. As you can see from the highlights below, it was a sensational showing – and this was just in 45 minutes. He’s going to play for Ecuador again in this upcoming international break, and we can’t wait to see that either. You can see it all in the clip embedded here:

Insane stat of the week the career TOTAL money spent on Olivier Giroud transfers £29m that for a player who will likely end up with 500 or so total goals produced for club and country, depending on how long he keeps going (375 or so goals and 140 to 150 or so assists for club and country (this season, on a full season (granted at his age he can no longer play 3800 plus minutes) minutes projection, he is tracking to around 21 goals and around 14 assists just for AC Milan, plus he has 4 goals and 2 assists for France)

Chelsea pair Malo Gusto and Axel Disasi left out of France squad for March friendlies https://theathletic.com/5341972/2024/03/14/Chelsea-france-disasi-gusto-squad/ Chelsea pair Malo Gusto and Axel Disasi have been left out of France’s squad for their upcoming international friendlies. Centre-back Disasi was included in Didier Deschamps’ last squad in November. The 26-year-old was an unused substitute during the 14-0 victory over Gibraltar and came on in the 5th minute during the 2-2 draw with Greece. Gusto, 20, was not selected for Deschamps’ squad in November, but has impressed with his club form of late. The right-back has had an extended run in the team due to first-choice right-back and club captain Reece James’ hamstring injury. France face Germany at the Groupama Stadium on March 23 and then Chile at the Stade Velodrome on March 26. These are France’s final fixtures before the start of the European Championships in Germany this summer. Gusto has been included in Thierry Henry’s France under-21 squad for their matches against Ivory Coast on March 22 and the U.S. on March 25. When asked in February about the possibility of him making France’s Euro 2024 squad, Gusto told The Athletic: “It is a target for me. I have got this idea in my head but, for the moment, I have to just keep focusing on Chelsea, on every game, starting this weekend. “And after, we will see what happens. But it is a target for me, for sure, 100 per cent.” Gusto made his only senior international appearance during the 2-1 victory over the Netherlands in October. Disasi has earned five caps, including being part of France’s 2022 World Cup squad where he was a late substitute in the final. France squad in full Goalkeepers: Alphonse Areola (West Ham United), Mike Maignan (AC Milan), Brice Samba (Lens). Defenders: Jonathan Clauss (Marseille), Lucas Hernandez (Paris Saint-Germain), Theo Hernandez (AC Milan), Ibrahima Konate (Liverpool), Jules Kounde (Barcelona), Benjamin Pavard (Inter), William Saliba (Arsenal), Dayot Upamecano (Bayern Munich). Midfielders: Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid), Youssouf Fofana (Monaco), Adrien Rabiot (Juventus), Aurelien Tchouameni (Real Madrid), Warren Zaire-Emery (Paris Saint-Germain). Forwards: Ousmane Dembele (Paris Saint-Germain), Moussa Diaby (Aston Villa), Olivier Giroud (AC Milan), Randal Kolo Muani (Paris Saint-Germain), Marcus Thuram (Inter), Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain), Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid). GO DEEPER Malo Gusto: 'Pochettino knows he has to wake up our mentality. We are Chelsea. We have to win'

Nicolas Jackson and Didier Drogba: Why comparisons between strikers are unfair https://theathletic.com/5338948/2024/03/15/Chelsea-drogba-jackson-comparison/ In the wake of his clever flick to open the scoring against Newcastle United at Stamford Bridge on Monday, the tone of the ever-shifting conversation around Nicolas Jackson is starting to sound more positive again — but like so much modern discourse, it remains a dialogue that veers far too readily towards the extremes. Five months were all it took for Jackson to go from fielding questions about emulating Didier Drogba on Chelsea’s pre-season tour of the United States to having his substitution cheered by his own supporters after several badly missed chances in the 2-1 defeat against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux. Now, one good game after seeing his stepover fail against Brentford eagerly seized upon as social media meme material, the growing goal return of his debut campaign in English football is being compared favourably with that of the Ivorian’s first season at Chelsea in 2004-05. The fact that the key numbers are similar — Drogba scored 16 goals in 41 appearances across all competitions, while Jackson has 12 goals with up to 14 matches to add to his 31 appearances this season — is less relevant than the reality that the comparison is plainly unfair. To reference how Drogba began at Chelsea is to invoke what he became, thereby signalling the intent to hold a raw 22-year-old to the standard set by an era-defining legend with an entire career in the history books. “From the beginning, we have been talking about Jackson needing to score goals — which is OK — but you cannot compare Jackson now with Didier Drogba,” Chelsea head coach Mauricio Pochettino said last month. “Drogba was one of the best strikers in the world and it’s difficult to build another Drogba.” Chelsea would probably be foolish to even try because Drogba, as a player, a person and a football story, is as hard to replicate as they come. A striker who first broke double figures for goals in a season as a 24-year-old at Guingamp in 2002-03. A No 9 who significantly reinvented his game in his mid-twenties (Jose Mourinho compared him to Thierry Henry upon signing him in 2004, before turning him into the greatest target man of his generation). A talisman who became the ultimate big-game decider despite only actually producing one prolific scoring season by modern standards, netting 37 goals in 44 appearances as a 31-year-old under Carlo Ancelotti in Chelsea’s double-winning 2009-10 campaign. GO DEEPER Drogba and destiny: From Stamford Bridge boos to Chelsea’s greatest To point out that, at Jackson’s age, Drogba was still toiling unremarkably with Le Mans in the second tier of French football is striking, but does not feel like a pathway to a greater truth. Every football career is distinct and this particular one is playing out more than 20 years later, in a different era of the sport in which the striker role has itself evolved considerably. Jackson is very early on in his own journey and Chelsea — as Pochettino stresses with increasing regularity — is a changed club undertaking a painful rebuild around youth. A more suitable short-term yardstick for his progress and potential might be the 15 Premier League goals that Tammy Abraham scored in 34 appearances as a 21-year-old in 2019-20. The search for a worthy Drogba successor has consumed many inside and outside Chelsea ever since he first left in 2012. Only Diego Costa truly came close to walking the walk, and only in two of his three seasons at Stamford Bridge. Yet it increasingly feels as if, in addition to resulting in a huge amount of wasted money on Alvaro Morata (£58million) and Romelu Lukaku (£97.5m; his second spell at the club) in particular, it has been a long-winded attempt to answer the wrong question. In the last five full Premier League seasons, the eventual champions have scored an average of 91.2 goals — a bar that Chelsea, with or without Drogba, have only cleared once this century. It is very rare for an individual player, even an extraordinary one, to raise the production of an entire attack; Manchester City actually scored five fewer goals with a rampant Erling Haaland last season than they managed without a single prolific goalscorer in 2021-22. One of Pochettino’s key tasks is to build an attacking ecosystem that can match this high standard and, despite his flaws, Jackson is already showing enough to imagine a scenario in which he becomes a significant part of a prolific Chelsea attack in the future. This season, only Dominic Calvert-Lewin has more significantly underperformed relative to his non-penalty expected goals (xG) than the Senegal international, but generating xG is a much better long-term indicator of an effective striker and, according to FBref, his 12.6 non-penalty xG ranks fifth in the Premier League. “The effort is there, you see that with how he presses, and he has the quality,” Pochettino said of Jackson after the Newcastle win on Monday. “With more games and more experience, he is going to be more calm and more clinical in front of the goal. He can score a lot of goals for Chelsea. “We need to keep believing.” Measured against any reasonable expectations, and certainly against his price tag, Jackson is doing fine. To maintain that progress beyond what could be a summer of significant attacking reinforcement at Stamford Bridge, he might be wise to study how Drogba redoubled his efforts and raised his game every time Chelsea bought a new striker to compete with or replace him. In almost every other respect, the spectre of the Ivorian is unhelpful, bar one: to serve as a powerful reminder to Jackson himself, and to anyone inclined to boo or mock him, that even the most legendary reputations are forged slowly through adversity, that the present is no prisoner of the past, and that nothing about the future is set in stone.

Mauricio Pochettino to support Raheem Sterling after England omission: ‘Football is like this’ https://theathletic.com/5344426/2024/03/15/raheem-sterling-mauricio-pochettino-Chelsea-england/ Chelsea head coach Mauricio Pochettino admits there is nothing he can say to Raheem Sterling to help him cope with being omitted from the England squad again. Sterling now looks set to be left out of England’s squad for the European Championships this summer having been arguably their best player when they reached the final three years ago. The 29-year-old won the last of his 82 caps in England’s World Cup quarter-final defeat to France in December 2022. He has not been selected by national team coach Gareth Southgate ever since. Southgate has until June 7 to name his 23-man squad for the tournament, but the friendlies against Brazil and Belgium this month provides a major indication who Southgate will choose. When asked by The Athletic if he is able to help Sterling cope with the disappointment, Pochettino said: “It’s difficult to talk because what am I going to tell him? All we can do is support him and try to help him to perform here. It is not our decision. “Of course he needs to perform well to convince Gareth but what I tell him is no consolation, (nothing I can say) can make him happy. Nothing. Football is like this.” GO DEEPER Chelsea are still to see the best of Raheem Sterling - he is determined to put that right Chelsea left-back Ben Chilwell has received a call-up, just one week after having to see a specialist about a knee injury he sustained at Brentford. The problem is not as bad as first feared and he is in contention to start Chelsea’s FA Cup quarter-final at home to Leicester City on Sunday. Pochettino added: “He is fit and back in training. Everything is going well and he will be in the squad for Sunday. “We didn’t talk this morning about that (England) because we were talking about us, about Chelsea. But of course when a player comes back from injury and starts to feel fit, gets a call up to England, they are excited for sure.” GO DEEPER Chilwell to see specialist about fresh knee injury

Mauricio Pochettino organises barbecue to help young side settle: ‘Players learn what it means to play for Chelsea’ https://theathletic.com/5344824/2024/03/15/mauricio-pochettino-Chelsea-young-pressure/ Chelsea head coach Mauricio Pochettino admits some of his players are finding it difficult to handle the expectations of playing for such a big club. Pochettino’s squad is now one of the youngest in the Premier League after a huge overhaul of the squad since the Todd Boehly-Clearlake consortium took over in 2022. A reminder of just how many changes there has been in a short time will come on Sunday in their FA Cup Quarter Final against Leicester City. Out of the current group, only Ben Chilwell, Thiago Silva and Reece James were in the squad which lost to the same opponents in the final three years ago (Trevoh Chalobah was on loan at Lorient). Pochettino, who revealed some of the team struggled to sleep before the Carabao Cup final loss to Liverpool last month, said: “One thing we cannot change is to give time to the players to get experience and be more mature. “You ask me about Cole Palmer — not all the players have the same process in settling at the club or to perform. We are in a process that of course the main group, the main young players…they struggle a little bit to deal with the pressure to play for Chelsea. That is the thing we are of course aware of and we are focusing on trying to help them in all the areas.” Pochettino has organised a number of team bonding events since taking over to assist with this. Another one was arranged on Friday afternoon with 120-130 people, including the players and coaching staff, attending a barbecue at the club’s training ground. With the game taking place against Leicester less than 48 hours later, Pochettino revealed that what was consumed is strictly monitored. He explained: “There are two nutritionists who will control what they are going to eat. We drink water, orange juice, no alcohol. We do not eat too much, (we) eat protein, green salad, no fries. “The idea is to share (time/conversations) between the players and the staff. The players learn to understand what it means to play for Chelsea. “Of course having a barbecue doesn’t mean that afterwards we are going to score goals but of course it is about communication, feeling better. Like it is not only a training ground where you come to work, it’s home and we want to create a good feeling between everyone. To get people to fight for the same thing — to win.”

What now, Graham Potter? https://theathletic.com/5332242/2024/03/16/graham-potter-Chelsea-man-utd/ When Premier League managers get sacked, they tend to stay quiet for a while before entering a TV studio or appearing on a podcast, as if to remind us all they still exist. Frequently in these situations, they note how being dismissed will make them a better manager in the long run, while veering away from throwing shade at the players who contributed to their downfall or the higher-ups who wielded the axe. It is a path followed by most in the business at some stage, including Jose Mourinho, Mauricio Pochettino and, more recently, Jesse Marsch. You could argue their motive is to put themselves back into the shop window for owners and chairmen getting itchy feet about their club’s current manager or head coach. Graham Potter, however, opted for a different route after his Chelsea dismissal on April 2 last year. Instead of talking tactics with Jamie Carragher under the bright lights in Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football studio, he pretty much vanished; and as we approach a year since his departure, he has still rarely been seen. Media interview requests have been rejected, holidays taken and possible new jobs turned down. There was also a trip to the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic at the end of February to deliver a keynote speech to the British Armed Forces based there. Andrew Murrison MP, the parliamentary under-secretary of state at the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD), had to clarify that Potter had not been hired for the visit by the MOD after being asked the question by opposition MP Rosena Allin-Khan. While in the Falklands, which is an internally self-governing overseas territory of the United Kingdom but located around 300 miles (500km) off the coast of Argentina, Potter also visited youth side Falklands Football Club and spoke at Stanley College in the capital, also named Stanley, before participating in an off-the-record Q+A where no questions were off limits. “It came about at really short notice,” explains Michael Poole, a coach for Falklands FC. “One of our colleagues at the club had heard an advert on the British Forces Broadcasting Service radio station that Graham was coming over to give a talk about leadership and dealing with difficult situations. “The football club asked if there was any chance he could come and meet with people who love and enjoy football in Stanley and he was more than happy to. “Some of us adults were even more excited than some of the kids! He was fantastic. He was really friendly and incredibly patient with us all. He spent a couple of hours outside on the all-weather football pitch and spoke to the kids at the start before speaking to the senior players.” “The guys found his talk really interesting,” added Mike Summers OBE, chair of the islands’ National Sports Council. “It is not something we are generally exposed to or able to participate in. “We rather wished we had a bit more time and notice, as we could have arranged a game for him to coach the Stanley team. He did a crossbar challenge with senior members of the Stanley squad and went in goal for the junior players when they took penalties.” The one thing Potter didn’t do was give away the next move in his career. And as Chelsea continue to struggle in the post-Roman Abramovich era, you wonder whether some club owners will look back at his troubled, seven-month spell at Stamford Bridge and look at it in a slightly kinder light. After his achievements in Sweden and with previous club Brighton, are we coming close to seeing the return of Potter at last? Potter was brought to Chelsea in September 2022 after their new owners decided to sack Thomas Tuchel six games into the new Premier League season and implement a ‘long-term’ strategy they hoped would return a club that had won five league titles, two Champions Leagues and six FA Cups this century to the top of the game. Impressed by what he had achieved in three seasons at Brighton, Potter was the one co-owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali wanted to take Chelsea into a new era, coinciding with their significant splash in the transfer market, spending £550million in their first summer. Less than seven months into that new era, however, and despite having paid Brighton £21million to hire Potter and several members of his coaching and backroom staff, he was sacked after losing 11 and drawing eight of his 31 matches in charge, leaving the west London club 11th in the Premier League and 12 points outside the top four spots that bring Champions League qualification. In a joint statement, Boehly and Eghbali said they had the “highest degree” of respect for Potter and that they were “disappointed” they needed to make another change in the dugout. It would have been easy for Potter to throw mud at Chelsea; after all, to many, they had become the definition of how not to run a football club and there is a strong case to be made that he was a victim of the ownership’s blase approach to just about everything, as opposed to his coaching not being at an adequate level. Sometimes silence can speak for itself and Potter has largely remained off the grid since his dismissal. Given how Pochettino has struggled this season in his first year as Chelsea coach, the now 48-year-old Englishman must have a sense of vindication that he was not the problem and that it may have more to do with the frantic way the club has conducted its business. Following his dismissal, several other managerial jobs have become available, most notably elsewhere in the Premier League at Tottenham Hotspur, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Crystal Palace, Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest, and his name is often linked to vacancies. When Janne Andersson, manager of the Sweden men’s national team, stepped down in November after they failed to qualify for the 2024 European Championship, the country’s FA attempted to appoint Potter. He is known in Sweden having managed Ostersund between 2011 and 2018, leading them from the fourth tier into the top division and winning its FA Cup equivalent. They also got to the knockout phase of the Europa League, beating Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium along the way. “You can say this, the list of names that have been sent to me or that I am reading, it is clear that he (Potter) is part of that list,” Andrea Mollerberg, the Swedish FA’s general secretary, said. “We’ll see what we filter down and who is interested in this role.” In late December, Potter and his wife, Rachel, bought a villa in Are, a Swedish ski resort, with the estate agent involved, Joakim Wiklund, telling the local press he had been working on the transaction since last March and that his customers asked him to “keep a very low profile”. Having passed on the opportunity to return to management with Sweden, the expectation within the industry is that Potter will take a role somewhere this summer — should the right one become available. “There is no doubting he is a good manager and good with people and players,” said a source who has come up against Potter in the Premier League, speaking anonymously to protect relationships. “He is ideal for building a long-term programme. “His time at Chelsea raises question marks as to whether his personality is strong enough for a big job and what that entails, but that doesn’t make him a bad coach. He definitely isn’t that!” Potter is already the bookies’ favourite to be the next Manchester United manager should their new minority shareholder INEOS — the petrochemicals firm founded by British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe — decide to sack Erik ten Hag. United’s incoming sporting director, Dan Ashworth, has been placed on gardening leave by current employers Newcastle United as the two Premier League clubs negotiate a compensation package. Ashworth knows Potter well and the pair have a close relationship, heightened from their successful time as colleagues at Brighton from 2019 to 2022. According to Poole, Potter’s trip to the Falkland Islands stemmed from a conversation he’d had over the festive period about wanting to visit the archipelago — the subject of a brief war between the UK and Argentina in 1982 over sovereignty. “He was over for four days,” Poole said. “He spent one afternoon with us in Stanley and the rest of the time he was with the military and he mentioned flying around the islands to some of the more remote places where the military are based, to say hello. “He was keen to see some penguins and that was being organised for him.” Although his time at the football club was, for those present, a roaring success, it was not until he delivered a speech followed by a Q+A session at Stanley College that they saw him open up about his career. “There were two elements to the Q+A,” Poole says. “One was the open bit up at the football pitch, which was more about the best players he’s coached and that kind of thing and also talking about his career as a coach. “After his short talk on leadership, he did another Q+A and this was off-the-record, but he was incredibly candid about his career and why he had moved roles. “He was there to talk about leadership generally and was trying to get across some key messages. All we wanted to talk about after was his time at Chelsea and individual players, but he was happy to answer those and was a lot more open than I thought he would be.” Potter was said to be relaxed and took each question in his stride, noting the differences between Brighton and Chelsea and why he was unable to make his mark at the latter. Although Potter’s trip to the Falklands had nothing to do with lining himself up for a new job, it has served as a reminder that he remains available for employment. This summer will see managerial vacancies at Liverpool (taking over when Jurgen Klopp steps down), Bayern Munich (replacing Tuchel) and Barcelona (where Xavi is also quitting), as well as potentially Manchester United. Going back two years, you could argue Potter would have been a strong candidate for such Premier League vacancies. But those seven months at Chelsea left questions about his suitability for a club of that stature and they will remain unanswered until he talks publicly about his experience at Stamford Bridge or proves his doubters wrong in his next job. If he is still clubless in the summer, Potter will have been out of work for more than a year. It is already his longest spell without a job since his managerial career began in the depths of non-League in 2008 and he surely won’t want his unemployment to extend into the 2024-25 season, as there is a danger yesterday’s man becomes the forgotten man.

Netflix confirm Jose Mourinho documentary to air next year https://theathletic.com/5342376/2024/03/14/jose-mourinho-documentary-netflix/ Netflix has confirmed it will air a documentary series about Jose Mourinho’s career in football next year. Twenty years after the 61-year-old led Porto to victory in the Champions League, the series will explore his life in football. It follows in the footsteps of the hugely successful four-part Beckham series that was released in October last year. The series will include interviews with Mourinho and players who worked under him. Earlier this year Mourinho let slip news about the upcoming Netflix documentary at the start of January when he was still in charge at Roma. He said: “There are things that will only be known there, they pay me well! I hadn’t signed with Roma yet, but I had given my word. A club came along and wanted me to break my agreement with Roma, which hadn’t yet been signed, and I said no. “When the documentary comes out everyone will say I’m a total idiot. When Portugal arrived I immediately told the president about it. When Saudi Arabia arrived I immediately told the president about it. This is why I don’t think they talk to other coaches behind my back, for me it’s not like that because there is reciprocity.” GO DEEPER Newcastle? A Chelsea return? England? USMNT? Where next for Mourinho? Mourinho is currently without a job after being sacked by Roma on January 16, with whom he won the Europa Conference League 2022, their first silverware in 14 years. Since taking over at Porto, Mourinho has won 26 major trophies, including consecutive titles with Chelsea in 2005 and 2006 under Roman Abramovich’s ownership and then a treble-winning season at Inter Milan in 2011. He also won La Liga with Real Madrid in 2012, another Premier League title in 2015 when he returned to Chelsea and the Europa League with Manchester United in 2017. However, there’s a sense his aura has faded in recent years, especially after his disappointing spell at Tottenham Hotspur and with complaints about negative tactics. Elsewhere his treatment of match officials – such as his behaviour towards Anthony Taylor after Roma lost last season’s Europa League final to Sevilla – has also attracted criticism. GO DEEPER Defensive, less pressing and no daily management - Mourinho is made for international football The documentary is being produced by John Battsek, who also worked on the Beckham film, and directed by Joe Pearlman who previously worked on Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling, Now and Robbie Williams. As well as Mourinho, Netflix is also releasing a documentary film called The Final: Attack on Wembley that comes out in May 2024. The film will examine the lawless carnage at the final of the European Championship 2020 that Italy won against England on penalties. Covid regulations meant the capacity for the final at Wembley Stadium was 60,000 which meant everybody knew there would be empty seats in the stadium which led to fans storming the stadium as euphoria turned to chaos. The independent review by Baroness Casey of Blackstock, published in December 2021, said a day that should have been a celebration ended up being “a source of national shame”, and was only a few “near misses” away from being another entry in football’s book of tragedies. GO DEEPER Jose Mourinho: the future or a Roman relic?

New Napoli deal almost ready for Khvicha Kvaratskhelia https://thedailybriefing.io/i/142637119/new-napoli-deal-almost-ready-for-khvicha-kvaratskhelia Also, there have been many rumours regarding Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, who remains a crucial player for Napoli. He's doing very well in recent weeks after a difficult first part of the season, and he said in an interview this week in a very clear way that he isn't discussing anything with Napoli - so the point is very clear. Napoli’s expectation is for Victor Osimhen to leave the club in the summer and for Khvicha Kvaratskhelia to extend his contract. The Italian team wants to get the new deal done as soon as possible, with the player’s agent saying everything will be clear by the end of May. It’s crucial for the Partnopei to close this new deal quickly, otherwise there could be a dangerous situation that develops in the summer. That’s because there is interest from many clubs - Barcelona, clubs in England and others - but nothing is concrete at the moment.

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